FACTOID # 3: The United States spends more money on its military than the next 12 nations combined.
 
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Africa > Morocco > Military

MOROCCAN MILITARY STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Armed forces growth 33 [46th of 132]
Armed forces personnel 198,000 [27th of 166]
Conscription
Conscription exists (FWCC).
Expenditures > Dollar figure $1,400,000,000.00 [44th of 170]
Gulf War Coalition Forces 13,000 [7th of 30]
Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49 8,595,800 [34th of 175]
Manpower > Fit for military service > Males age 15-49 5,411,850 [35th of 174]
Manpower > Military age 18 [103rd of 129]
Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males 351,671 [26th of 128]
Manpower available for military service > Females age 18-49 7,882,879 [21st of 120]
Manpower available for military service > Males age 18-49 7,908,864 [23rd of 164]
Manpower fit for military service > Females age 18-49 6,675,729 [19th of 119]
Manpower fit for military service > Males age 18-49 6,484,787 [21st of 161]
Manpower reaching military service age annually > Females age 18-49 341,677 [18th of 91]
Manpower reaching military service age annually > Males age 18-49 353,377 [25th of 157]
personnel 251,000 ... [25th of 170]
personnel > % of total labor force 2.26 % ... [31st of 168]
Service age and obligation
18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; conscript service obligation - 18 months (2004)
US military exports $10,188.00 thousand [18th of 109]
Weapon holdings 2,187,000 [37th of 137]

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SOURCES: calculated on the basis of data on armed forces from IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies). 2001. The Military Balance 2001-2002. Oxford: Oxford University Press; IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies). 2001. The Military Balance 2001-2002. Oxford: Oxford University Press; Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland, 1997. Data collected from the nations concerned, unless otherwise indicated. Acronyms: Amnesty International (AI); European Council of Conscripts Organizations (ECCO); Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC); International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHFHR); National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors (NISBCO); Service, Peace and Justice in Latin America (SERPAJ); War Resisters International (WRI); World Council of Churches (WCC); CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; "Gulf War Veterans: Measuring Health" by Lyla M. Hernandez, Jane S. Durch, Dan G. Blazer II, and Isabel V. Hoverman, Editors; Committee on Measuring the Health of Gulf War Veterans, Institute of Medicine. Published by The National Academies Press 1999; CIA World Factbook, December 2003; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; World Development Indicators database; Study by David Lochhead and James Morrell; available from the Center for International Policy; Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Morocco, Kingdom of Morocco, Al Mamlakah al Maghribiyah, Al Maghrib

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